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M5 MKII who designed this?
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DonParrot
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Could you please explain?
If somebody asks for help when it comes to operating a highly sophisticated electronic device this says what?
I could give you about 20 multiple-choice answers but I'd rather see what you come up with yourself.
ianp5a
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The EM5 could make some improvements. With ISO, I use mostly AUTO, 200 and 3200. I want to jump straight to them. Not roll a wheel back and forth. Or click arrow keys loads of times. Especially as AUTO is placed at one end. "Last used" or "Favourites" should be just a click away. And with the touch screen, pressing ISO should fill the screen with every ISO. Tap any one you want, to directly set it. No scrolling about.
Yes, it is as easy as Adventsam writes. It is an urban legend that Olympus menus are more complex than the competion. And, please, get informed before you write something: the Fn buttons are in the SCP: lower right corner. Just click on it and you are in the button configuration section of the menu. Regarding Mysets assignment, to me the assignment of a Myset to a button, belongs where it is now: in the button configuration section. It would be not logic to assign a button to a Myset in the Myset configruation menu. Many users don't assign a Myset at all or assign them to a dial position than to a button.
Want to change focus peaking parameters? When focus peaking is active, press INFO and you get icons for changing the parameters for focus peaking, like color an intensity, and screen brightness. There are numerous examples, where it becomes obvious that the overall camera operation, the SCP, and the integration with the menu system is actually quite clever designed. Just get informed, how to use it. Complex cameras aren't easy to comprehend in a few minutes, but an Olympus camera is designed so that you can shoot with it, out of the box, if you wish.
So, to sum up: the operation of the E-M5II is easy. It is one of the most cleverly designed system camera on the market. On par with GH4 and E-M1, much better than X-T1 and A7.
The problem is that you imply that the Panasonic logic, to which you are used to, is the only logic one. To me the AF implementation of Olympus is more simple and logic. I don't like the numerous on screen options of Panasonic, awkward to choose an comprehend. What is easier just to activate the focus magnifyer (that is actually what you are talking about), by just tapping on the screen and change the size of the field with a simple gesture?
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Thomas
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Uhm, no it's not Panasnoic logic. It's just normal logic to expect something that is named AF to be found in a so called AF menu. But unfortunately there's a split in the menu design, as I wrote below.
The tapping on the screen should lead to the same menus (see below) but it doesn't. They are two different things and the fact that you cannot even use the bigger (better?) AF fields as default after turning on the camera makes it even worse, as you have to press the buttons again everytime you turn on the camera.
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Tony8232
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This makes it look more difficult than it is, really. The touchscreen vertical slider method which results in a non-permanent, resizeable green AF box, is an evolution of the "zoom frame AF" method which Olympuses prior to the E-PL5 had as the only method to get a smaller centre AF target. Prior to touchscreens, it was only done with buttons, and you can still choose to do it this way on the touchscreen cameras (and even this was impossible on the original E-P1 and slightly updated E-P2). You can use Zoom Frame AF either as a small target (sized to one of several choices), or to actually zoom into the area covered by the AF target as well, and switch between these choices on the fly.
From the E-PL5 (and E-PM2) onwards, a small AF target option also became available, and that is permanently retained until you decide to change it. That's the one you can access with the left button on the multicontroller and then the Info key, giving you the choice of All Targets, Single Target, Group Target and Small Target. You can access the choices either by pressing the left multicontroller key, or via the icon on the SCP, and then using the Info key to make them available for selection in the button-press method, or just by twirling a dial with the SCP. Whilst the choices are displayed, you can also move the Group position (a smaller multi-target selection) around or move the single points of either size to your preferred positon. You can also assign your favourite selection to be the Home Position AF, and have it instantly recalled on pressing an Fn button if you want, but the selection you have made by this paragraph's method is retained until you change it anyway.
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